Lawsuit seeks to block abortion pill ban in Wyoming

In far flung Amarillo Texas, *** federal district judge could upend *** 20 year old food and drug administration decision about abortion medication. He really doesn't have *** legal standing on this. He doesn't have *** legal precedent. Janda Raker has lived through abortion being illegal in most states then legalized by the Supreme Court. Then seeing it overturned by that same high court. 50 years later, she protested at the Wednesday hearing presented by conservative federal judge Matthew Kaz Meri here in the Texas Panhandle. There's nothing to show that this medication is harmful to anybody. So why should it be made illegal? Judge Kasick heard arguments from anti abortion groups and anti abortion doctors arguing people have been harmed by the drug. They also say the FDA over its authority when it approved the pill. The lead attorney for those groups didn't take questions after he left court. He did make *** 90 minute presentation inside to the judge saying removing the pill from market would restore policing powers to the states. An allusion to the overturning of Roe versus Wade the FDA on *** number of occasions has broken its own rules in order to widely provide these chemical abortions. The pill taken in combination with miSOPROStol is the most common method of abortion in the US. Ingrid Scoop is an obstetrician gynecologist opposed to abortion who was outside the hearing. She's affiliated with anti abortion groups that filed supporting arguments in the case. Why stop at abortion medication. How about prep, how about herpes medicine? How about Viagra? I mean, if you have *** moral argument against it against all those things, you can make it in court. I mean, why stop there? I'm not an attorney. So I'm not really sure about those arguments from that perspective, but I think what clearly needs to happen because this has been *** secretive process by which the FDA has lood restrictions and approve these drugs. All I would like to see is for *** trial where we can get all of the evidence out in front of the American people. The judge even asking anti abortion lawyers if *** court had ever taken an FDA approved medication off the market before they acknowledged they knew of no prior examples. Doctors for preserving abortion rights say the judge could create an invasive new legal precedent. I don't get to pick my own facts about what is safe, what's effective. Um And I don't tell patients facts based on their political stance. I give them the information that I have based on my medical experience based on the science. Um And I hope that they make the best decisions for themselves. Lawyers for the drug company that makes me *** priest stone argued alongside the government to keep the pill available and that the FDA properly studied the medicine before its approval. The Wednesday hearing also shrouded in other controversy. The judge wanted lawyers involved to keep quiet about it, to minimize public disruption. Only putting the hearing on schedule after the Washington Post reported about it. Some abortion rights protesters called the hearing *** kangaroo court. We're reminding everybody that he's the one who created the circus out here. He is the circus. The kangaroo kame is the one who created the situation where people have to come out here and create *** circus because we're trying to defend our rights.

Abortion-rights supporters filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block Wyoming's new abortion pill ban from taking effect.A group hoping to open what would be the state's second clinic offering abortions filed the amended lawsuit days after Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed what is the nation's first explicit ban on abortion pills. Absent court intervention, that ban would take effect July 1.Video above: A separate abortion pill case being heard by a federal judge in Texas recently drew protestorsAbortion-rights supporters already were seeking to block a separate sweeping abortion ban that took effect Sunday in Wyoming without the governor's signature. That law seeks to overcome objections that prompted a judge to suspend a previous ban.The abortion pill ban and the sweeping ban conflict and create confusion about what is and isn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t permissible under the new laws, according to the lawsuit. If they바카라 게임 웹사이트�re allowed to be in effect, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the fundamental rights of Wyoming women and their families will be taken away by the state government and those rights will cease to exist,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the amended lawsuit said.Both of the new Wyoming abortion bans make exceptions to save a pregnant woman바카라 게임 웹사이트�s life and for cases of rape or incest that are reported to police.Until Gordon signed the ban on medication abortions, no state had passed a law specifically prohibiting such pills, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. However, abortion pills already were banned in 13 other states with blanket bans on abortion, and 15 states already had limited access to the pills.Medication abortions also are a target of a separate lawsuit in Texas, where abortion opponents have asked a federal judge to reverse the Food and Drug Administration's 2000 approval of mifepristone. A two-pill combination of mifepristone and another drug is the most common form of abortion in the U.S.Wyoming has only one abortion provider, a women바카라 게임 웹사이트�s health clinic in Jackson that only provides medication abortions but has canceled appointments after the state's broad ban took effect this week. Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday to consider whether to block that new ban while the legal challenge over it moves ahead.Wellspring Health Access, which is seeking to block the abortion pill ban and the broader measure, has been planning to open a clinic in Casper that would provide surgical and medication abortions. After an arson attack prevented that clinic from opening as planned last summer, organizers hoped to open it next month.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Wyomingites deserve access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care, including both surgical and medication abortion, and that바카라 게임 웹사이트�s why we are fighting to keep medication abortion legal in Wyoming,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Julie Burkart, president of Wellspring Health Access said in a statement.Also suing are four women, including two gynecologists, and Chelsea's Fund, a Wyoming abortion access advocacy group.Wyoming Attorney General Bridget Hill 바카라 게임 웹사이트�will vigorously defend the legality of this law, just as she does with all statutes when their constitutionality is challenged,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Gordon spokesman Michael Pearlman said by email.Until this week, abortion had remained legal in Wyoming despite a ban that followed the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn its landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. In putting that ban on hold in July, Owens ruled that it stood to harm women with pregnancy complications and their doctors.She also found that a 2012 state constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to make one's own health care decisions could allow abortion.The new sweeping ban asserts that abortion is not health care and the amendment, therefore, doesn't apply to abortion.Since the reversal of Roe in June, abortion restrictions have been up to states, and the landscape has shifted quickly.Other states where courts have put on hold bans or deep restrictions are Arizona, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, South Carolina and Utah. Idaho courts forced the state to allow abortions during medical emergencies.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. —

Abortion-rights supporters filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block Wyoming's new abortion pill ban from taking effect.

A group hoping to open what would be the state's second clinic offering abortions filed the amended lawsuit days after Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed what is the nation's first explicit ban on abortion pills. Absent court intervention, that ban would take effect July 1.

Video above: A separate abortion pill case being heard by a federal judge in Texas recently drew protestors

Abortion-rights supporters already were seeking to block a separate sweeping abortion ban that took effect Sunday in Wyoming without the governor's signature. That law seeks to overcome objections that prompted a judge to suspend a previous ban.

The abortion pill ban and the sweeping ban conflict and create confusion about what is and isn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t permissible under the new laws, according to the lawsuit. If they바카라 게임 웹사이트�re allowed to be in effect, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the fundamental rights of Wyoming women and their families will be taken away by the state government and those rights will cease to exist,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the amended lawsuit said.

Both of the new Wyoming abortion bans make exceptions to save a pregnant woman바카라 게임 웹사이트�s life and for cases of rape or incest that are reported to police.

Until Gordon signed the ban on medication abortions, no state had passed a law specifically prohibiting such pills, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. However, already were banned in 13 other states with blanket bans on abortion, and 15 states already had limited access to the pills.

Medication abortions also are a target of , where abortion opponents have asked a federal judge to reverse the Food and Drug Administration's 2000 approval of mifepristone. A two-pill combination of mifepristone and another drug is the most common form of abortion in the U.S.

Wyoming has only one abortion provider, a women바카라 게임 웹사이트�s health clinic in Jackson that only provides medication abortions but has canceled appointments after the state's broad ban took effect this week. Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday to consider whether to block that new ban while the legal challenge over it moves ahead.

Wellspring Health Access, which is seeking to block the abortion pill ban and the broader measure, has been planning to open a clinic in Casper that would provide surgical and medication abortions. After an arson attack prevented that clinic from opening as planned last summer, organizers hoped to open it next month.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�Wyomingites deserve access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care, including both surgical and medication abortion, and that바카라 게임 웹사이트�s why we are fighting to keep medication abortion legal in Wyoming,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Julie Burkart, president of Wellspring Health Access said in a statement.

Also suing are four women, including two gynecologists, and Chelsea's Fund, a Wyoming abortion access advocacy group.

Wyoming Attorney General Bridget Hill 바카라 게임 웹사이트�will vigorously defend the legality of this law, just as she does with all statutes when their constitutionality is challenged,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Gordon spokesman Michael Pearlman said by email.

Until this week, abortion had remained legal in Wyoming despite a ban that followed the U.S. Supreme Court decision to . In putting that ban on hold in July, Owens ruled that it stood to harm women with pregnancy complications and their doctors.

She also found that a 2012 state constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to make one's own health care decisions could allow abortion.

The new sweeping ban asserts that abortion is not health care and the amendment, therefore, doesn't apply to abortion.

Since the reversal of Roe in June, abortion restrictions have been up to states, and the landscape has shifted quickly.

Other states where courts have put on hold bans or deep restrictions are Arizona, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, South Carolina and Utah. Idaho courts forced the state to allow abortions during medical emergencies.

Lawsuit seeks to block abortion pill ban in Wyoming

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